Eurofound data shows that only 29% of employees in the European Union, Norway and United Kingdom participate work their organizations at a high level involvement: they making decisions have an impact on wider organization, individually or collectively, show personal initiative carrying out daily tasks. At time when many companies are facing serious crises (inflation, problems functioning supply...

Collaborative water governance deals with diverse actors under participatory systems of decision making. This form involves stakeholders fundamentally different values and premises about resources, as well understandings the problem how to approach it. Thus, one major challenges collaborative relies on diversity frames carried by involved shift from hierarchical decision-making a more participa...

Our research explores meta-design as an innovative framework in the design of an emerging type of software-intensive systems called participative software systems. The fundamental challenge facing this approach is achieving the best fit between the software system and its ever-changing context of use, problems, domains, users, and communities of users. Our objective is to define the scientific ...

In a distributed eLearning environment, the development of learning objects is a participative task. We consider learning objects as knowledge pieces, which are subject to the management processes of acquisition, delivery, creation and production. A multiple-tier architecture for participative knowledge production tasks is introduced, where knowledge-producing agents are arranged into knowledge...

Participative software systems are a new class of software systems whose development does not end at the deployment but requires continued user participation and contribution. They need to provide both solutions to users and a participation framework that entails technical and social challenges. Metadesign is a promising approach to guide the development of participative software systems. Drawi...

This research analyzes the main explanatory factors in the impulse of citizen participation experiences in public decision-making, both online and offline, looking for differences and similarities regarding Internet use for participation. It focuses the analysis in Catalonia, one of the Spanish and European Union geographical areas that have headed the impulse of participatory experiences. It f...

This paper explores the adoption process of user-participative interaction design tools in manufacturing organisations in which they have not historically been used in the development of consumer product interfaces. Three case studies are presented describing the adoption of userparticipative design tools at different stages of implementation. The studies reveal an interesting ambivalence towar...

Interactivity and interactions are critical in underpinning the learning process in face-to-face, campus based and distance and online education. Interactions serve a diverse range of functions in the educational process which include, for example: promoting active and participative learning on a one to one basis or within a group or learning community through social dialogue; enabling effectiv...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the male and female students’ learning styles of classroom participation and these styles’ differences between Humanities and Science majors.Methods: 1039 individuals were selected through the proportional stratifiedrandom sampling method among undergraduate and graduate students inHumanities (n=421) and Science (n=618) faculties of Tehran Universit...